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Worse. Make their money in Ottawa. Spend it and pay taxes outside.

Yep. Maybe "Government of Ontario Transit" should serve more than the GTA? I pay provincial taxes too. What do I get in Ottawa? Instead, we get bizarre demands for Ottawa residential taxpayers to subsidize buses to far flung exurbs.

The UK runs a good bit of their rail network at 125 mph (201 kph). Not high speed. But not quite VIA either. Also, as I've pointed out before. Southern Ontario (118/km2) and Southern Quebec (158/km2 along the St. Lawrence from Montreal to Quebec City) have population densities that mimic...

You're mixing up a whole bunch of various purposes and intents here. How often is the average reservist with 3 hrs per week training on drone warfare? The goal here should be to get them trained as a basic soldier locally so that you can take them to a regional training centre in the future...

Most of the market is the Corridor. Other than the Corridor and Alberta, passenger rail isn't going to be competitive. There's no real case for it other pouring extraordinary subsidies per passenger (not just initial capital). Most of the country doesn't have enough traffic to even justify...

I listen to the Autoline podcasts. They are pre-dominantly Boomers and Gen X and are often panicked over dying auto culture among younger generations. Make new cars >$50k on average. Make homes with garages > $500k. Gee I wonder why young people don't want cars anymore.

The feds can and should contribute to AB building their HSR line. We need to think less about provincial boundaries (which we all just randomly made up a century and a bit ago) and more about connecting regions where the bulk of Canadians live. I would be more than happy to see my tax dollars...

My wife's a teacher who works close to home. We are a one-car family. We did the math on what a second car would cost on payments, insurance, maintenance, gas, other consumables. Way cheaper to carpool, Uber and transit. And these days, when the average used car in Canada is over $40k, the...

Wait till you learn that in a lot of the world HSR stations operate like airports and have car rental counters. This place is so full of ridiculous strawmen borne of zero experience with the things being discussed.

Yep. Way too many are daydreaming of Corps and Divisions here. Go back to first principles. What do we need? What do our foreign and defence policies say? Division level warfighting and defence of the homeland don't commit us to hundreds of brigades. Doesn't even commit us to dozens of...

I don't even think it's necessary to go that far. I look at something like this for CASFC: I would hope that whatever facilities are designed can do BMQ/BMOQ + most of this (CASFC) locally. Maybe an occasional weekend to a regional training center or a 2-3 week field phase of CASFC instead...

Denison is 11 acres. That Singaporeans MMTC that trains 120k personnel per year? 17 acres. We could build insanely effective training infrastructure for the reserves on the footprint of a rather small Amazon warehouse.

Space is an option..... Only for the US. Not so much for the rest of us. There really is only one company that can pull off the line of global coverage the Pentagon wants. The same one that is also building a global comms network for the Pentagon (which could (likely is) carry other sensors)...

I think the CA is heading in this direction. Based on my cursory read of CA Mod.

Incidentally, CA Modernization and Restructure has 10 "Reserve Training Centres" on the books. One per Res Bde. I would like to see that be more than a parade square.

Why do we always go back to WW1 and WW2 here? Modern conflicts are just not the same. For example, we can't do anything like what we did in the WWs with pilots or airplanes. I am reminded of the adage of fighting the last war.

Turns out, "Allah will provide" isn't a sound economic strategy and your population will get fed up with your management if they are starving. I hope the US is covertly supporting the AUF. Give them the ammo and intel. And yep if the Taliban wants to come in from the cold, they need to...

Since there's no Afghanistan thread. Hilarious. The Taliban wants American diplomats and investors back. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/world/asia/afghanistan-us-taliban.html

It's also not as easy to manage as people imagine. This forum is obviously army centric so they focus on just getting people to a range. But we need a lot more skills than just people who can shoot. And those can be difficult to integrate. For example, there's huge issues with reserve pilots...

Sure, but you weren't driving 2.5t trucks and firing big guns before you put on a uniform. You walked in and signed up so you could do those things. Kirkhill's suggestion is that the CAF broadly subsidize a bunch of hobbies and hope that some of these folks will sign up. I question the...